Windows 2000 Server Documentation - Security Resources

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Security Overview Security Administration Checklists Best Practices Online Documentation Security How To's

Security Overview

Before you can begin to plan and implement security for your computing environment, you should familiarize yourself with some basic Windows 2000 security concepts. These concepts are:

• New security features

• Security model

• Domain architecture

• Authentication

• Authorization

• Auditing

• Security policies

• Trust

• Data protection

• Public key infrastructure

Security Administration Checklists

To get help on specific security administration tasks, see the following:

• Checklist: Defining a security template for Group Policy

• Checklist: Defining a security template for a local computer

• Checklist: Analyzing security

• Checklist: Configuring system security

• Checklist: Deploying certification authorities and PKI for an intranet

• Checklist: Deploying certification authorities and PKI for the Internet

• Checklist: Creating a certification hierarchy with an offline root certification authority

• Checklist: Deploying smart cards for logging on to Windows

• Common tasks for managing security

Best Practices

For product support recommendations and tips on managing security, see the following:

• Best practices for access control

• Best practices for auditing

• Best practices for Certificate Services

• Best practices for Encrypting File System

• Best practices for security configuration and analysis

• Best practices for managing security templates

Online Documentation Security How To's

• Log on to a domain controller as a non-administrative user

• Use the Run as command to start a program as an administrator

• Authenticate with smart cards

• Control access to objects

• Audit events

• Manage on-disk data encryption

• Manage Certificates

• Manage Certificate Services

• Manage Security Templates

• Utilizing Security Configuration and Analysis

• Automating security configuration tasks